Relationships
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Relationships
“You can predict the long term health of a relationship by whether each cut heals to 99% or 101%.”
― Michael Mayer
“Do not be absent for too long, then come and ask about how I am, details die with time and stories change.”
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Mahmoud Darwish
A quote by Mahmoud Darwish
I meet a lot of people searching for something (career, relationship, etc). And yet, when it’s put in front of them, they won’t pursue it because they fear pain (getting hurt, failure, etc.). So they unconsciously (and expensively) trade self protection for misery.
Shane Parrishtwitter.comEsther Perel
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling responsible for other people's emotions, reactions, and inner turmoil. We have an innate desire to be understood and accepted. So when others seem upset with us, judge us, or want us to change, we leap to explain, rationalize, and pacify. But in our quest to please or appease, we often lose ourselves.... See more
instagram.comI had my reasons, of course. As I say, she is crazy. I am, too, but in a very different way. The immense effort it took for me to spend a whole day with her and ensure that it was “perfect”—that I did nothing to offend, upset, or bother her—proved to me that we just didn’t work. And I thought: When a relationship does not work, each party has the
... See moreAgnes Callard • Breaking Points
I think it’s beautiful how fidelity means both loyalty and level of detail. Because of course it should mean both those things. Of course.